There are a number of interesting new features in Hyper-V in Windows Server 2012 R2. One of the ones that I was directly involved in was the work to make live migration faster. Now, most people are pretty impressed with live migration today. ...

I was recently given a pointer to the following white paper that goes through all the best practices for virtualizing Exchange on top of Hyper-V: http://download.microsoft.com/download/4/A/C/4AC32FD3-220E-45DC-AA97-DBDBE19C15B2/Best_Practices_for_Virtualizing_and_Managing_Exchange_2013...

On Monday I gave a quick introduction to the faster live migration technologies in Windows Server 2012 R2. Before I start getting into how this all works and what the things to consider are, lets talk about how you configure it. By default – when...

Last week I talked about the fact that we had introduced two new technologies for making live migration faster in Windows Server 2012 R2 . Today I would like to dig in deep on how one of these approaches, live migration with compression, actually...

There are a number of things happening with the ever popular Hyper-V architectural posters at the moment. First, last week updated Hyper-V architectural posters for Windows Server 2012 R2 were made available here: http://www.microsoft.com/download...

If you have Hyper-V Replica enabled on a virtual machine, and Hyper-V is not able to send all disk changes across in a timely fashion, the replication relationship will eventually be put into a failed state. At this point in time you need to perform...

I was recently asked how you should go about determining the NUMA topology of a physical computer, for the purposes of planning a Hyper-V deployment. This is something that is normally quite tricky to do – so we actually included this information...